Daily Voting News For April 29, 2008

Daily Voting News For April 29,
2008

In
a laughable blog item Sequoia’s Michelle Shafer takes
snippets of news articles that make Sequoia’s machines
look good while she ignores all of the reports of problems.
It must be harder and harder for Shafer to find good things
to write about. Just last week she was attempting to make a
point that Sequoia’s intellectual property (IP) must be
protected from independent review in New Jersey. Then
details of a company-wide phone call were released that
revealed that not only does Sequoia not own any IP but that
President Jack Blaine made statements about how good it was
that they didn’t have any IP....

**"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive
listing of reports each day concerning issues related to
election and voting news around the country regardless of
quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in
"Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**

This is an opportunity for you as one of the 4 million potential funders and recipients of a Universal Basic Income to collectively consider the issue:1. Is UBI is a desirable policy for New Zealand; and2. How should a UBI system work in practice. More>>

The National party has announced its youth justice policy, which includes a controversial plan for recidivist serious youth offenders to be hit over the head with a comically large rubber mallet. More>>

ALSO:

It's been brought to my attention that Labour's new campaign slogan is "Let's do this". A collective call to action. A mission. I myself was halfway out of the couch before I realised I wasn't sure what it was I was supposed to do. More>>

ALSO:

Ordinary citizens have had very few venues where they can debate and discuss as to what they believe has led to the crisis in affordable housing and how we might begin to address this. The HiveMind on affordable housing was about redressing the balance. More>>

ALSO:

This is an opportunity for you as one of the 4 million guardians of our common water resources to help us find mutually agreeable solutions to the critical task of collectively managing these resources for health and sustainability. More>>